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Muslim group asks Obama for protection

WND investigation seen as example of 'alarming level of anti-Islam hate'

Art Moore, co-author of the best-selling book "See Something, Say Nothing," entered the media world as a PR assistant for the Seattle Mariners and a correspondent covering pro and college sports for Associated Press Radio. He reported for a Chicago-area daily newspaper and was senior news writer for Christianity Today magazine and an editor for Worldwide Newsroom before joining WND shortly after 9/11. He earned a master's degree in communications from Wheaton College.

Citing the impact of the WND Books expose “Muslim Mafia” as an example of rampant “anti-Islam hate in our nation,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on President Obama yesterday to address what it calls an “alarming” problem.

CAIR – which has filed suit against “Muslim Mafia” co-author P. David Gaubatz and his son for an undercover investigation of the group’s terrorist ties – distributed a list of “anti-Islam incidents” that included “a call by far-right members of the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate Muslim interns on Capitol Hill as ‘spies.'”

“President Obama is in the best position to address the alarming level of anti-Islam hate in our nation and to urge religious and political leaders to speak out in support of tolerance and mutual understanding,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.

As WND reported, Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., John Shadegg, R-Ariz., Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Paul Broun, R-Ga., formally asked the House sergeant at arms in October to investigate evidence from “Muslim Mafia” that CAIR is conspiring to plant “spies” inside Congress targeting sensitive security-related committees. In another letter, to Attorney General Eric Holder, the House members ask the Justice Department to reveal to Congress members why CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history.

“Muslim Mafia” uncovered confidential CAIR memos revealing that in one year alone, CAIR officials made 72 separate trips to Congress to lobby against the Patriot Act. The same year Congress met fewer than 150 days.

U.S. prosecutors believe CAIR, while claiming to be a civil-rights group, is actually a front group for Hamas and other terrorists. The Justice Department stated in September 2007 during its prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation in Dallas that CAIR “has been identified by the government at trial as a participant in an ongoing and ultimately unlawful conspiracy to support a designated terrorist organization, a conspiracy from which CAIR never withdrew.”

Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., flanked by Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., left, and Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., right, at news conference in U.S. Capitol in October

CAIR said its annual national report on the status of American Muslim civil rights, released this month, showed an increase in bias-related incidents in 2008.

CAIR has claimed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that Muslims in the U.S. have suffered a sharp rise in anti-Islamic abuse.

Moreover, incidents against Muslims were just a fraction of overall hate crimes. In 2006, 66 percent of religiously motivated attacks targeted Jews, while just 11 percent were against Muslims, even though the Jewish and Muslim populations are similar in size.

Other incidents listed were “a spate of vandalism incidents at mosques nationwide” and “anti-Islam remarks by Christian evangelist Franklin Graham.”

CAIR’s director Awad said Obama himself has been “targeted by anti-Muslim hate despite the fact that he is Christian,” noting a Colorado car dealer recently put up a billboard depicting the president as a “turban-wearing militant.”

Awad pointed to recent remarks made to a Muslim and Arab-American gathering in Michigan by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in which he said the Justice Department will return to its “traditional” role of ensuring civil rights. The president has signed a spending measure that will give the Justice Department’s civil rights division 102 new staff members, many of whom will be assigned to hate-crimes investigations.

CAIR said it began airing a new public service announcement called “I am Muslim, I am American” yesterday on the CBS Super Screen in New York City’s Times Square.

“Muslim Mafia,” by David Gaubatz and “Infiltration” author Paul Sperry, asserts CAIR is acting as a front for a conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood – the parent of al-Qaida and Hamas – to infiltrate the U.S. and help pave the way for Saudi-style Islamic law to rule the nation.

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